<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 21, 2016, at 5:27 PM, Ian Dees <<a href="mailto:ian.dees@gmail.com" class="">ian.dees@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">Hi Steve,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Steve Coast <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com" target="_blank" class="">steve@asklater.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Ian<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was just emailed privately to say there's hesitation to release the original briefing since they’ve moved beyond that. But I’m not sure that’s better, since it sounds like there is no documentation and it’s still the same agenda.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's pretty hard to argue about openness with "I was just emailed privately", isn't it?</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Well, it’s your board president emailing me privately which is a reasonable thing to do, just like I asked you last week to chat on the phone Ian. Usually you can figure stuff out better that way. :-)</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My guess is you didn't read the original brief before agreeing to be the client for the work?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I think I’ve said all I need to, it’s all out in the open and you have other transparency issues to work on anyway apparently that Clifford raised.</div><div><br class=""></div></div><div>Best</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Steve</div></body></html>